Is the PLASTIC in Plastic Surgery supposed to be literal?

We drove a friend of ours down to Grand Forks to catch a plane and passed a building with the sign - Truyu....Plastic Surgery. So, if we believe the sign - you will only discover the TRUE you if you get yourself enhanced and what nature gave you is really.....well.......not you.....????

Their ad states encouraging comments like: 'At Truyu, a rhinoplasty improves the appearance and proportion of your nose, enhancing facial harmony and self-confidence.' Facial harmony? Self confidence? So, if you look like the south end of a camel heading north, a nose job will give you more confidence. By the way - You can also like them on Facebook! I am sure no pun was intended.

This all tied in with our friend asking if we had seen Barry Manilow lately - not in person of course - but on the telly. We hadn't, so she went on to say that well...now after plastic surgery....he looks a lot like this guy:

Yes folks - It's Howdy Doody time!!!

And here is Barry Doody:

Apparently NOTHING MOVES on his face, which may relate to his own song that he can sing to his plastic surgeon......."Can't Smile Without You." or perhaps "Please Don't be Scared." (which is a real crap song he wrote quite some time ago and before he actually alerted his face so that now, we actually are a little scared.)

Of course not everyone can age gracefully and when you are under public scrutiny from early in your career you want to remain "young." But really....didn't anyone learn anything from Kenny Rogers??? Or Joan Rivers with a twenty year old face and seventy year old cankles! People - We KNOW you have had "some" work done....geeeeezzzz don't these people ask for references???

"Do you happen to have a book of pictures of people you have done work for?"

"Oh yes, here it is."

Scream of shock and horror......"Aaaaaahhhhhhhhh."

"Yes, THAT IS CHER!!!!!"

"Okay....sign me up."

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Of course there are some people who I think could use just a little work - like Paul McCartney:

HAHAHA sorry...that isn't Paul McCartney. This is an old joke.....this is Angela Landsbury, but you have to admit.......well...... here he is:

Maybe a little around the eyes and some jaw line work.....at least then it will match his .....natural hair colour, which is obviously........... still .....brown.



Things I have learned this week:

I read a story about woman who was suffering from brain cancer, but spent 40,000 pounds on plastic surgery before she died so when laid to rest she looked like Demi Moore. I really, really, really hope she didn't go to Barry Manilows' guy!

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Lady Gaga has actually HAD a nose job! Really? - I think she can still use one...that is...if she wants too because she really doesn't like to draw attention to herself. Hey, maybe that is why no one has noticed her nose job!!! You can't get passed her circus outfits.

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Someone has designed waterproof boxer shorts to "let you keep gadgets in your pants". Huh? I know what you are thinking.....but they mean gadgets like your cell phone and, a bonus, the lightweight briefs have two airtight pockets to store your passport, cash and credit cards and are waterproof to 200 feet. For those people who just can't put that phone down even while scuba diving. Resistance is futile...you cannot escape!!!!

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Only in OZ you say. A 70-year-old man has had a 4 inch fork removed from his penis after it became lodged there during a sexual act. Ya know I can't even comment.........

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You can find your muse in the most interesting places. This last week I have had two sort of wake up calls - not literally by phone though. One was my girlfriend in Edmonton who told me my Blog doesn't sound like me. Apparently my old Blog had a style - even though unintentional - and it sounded like ME. Hmmmm, I thought, that isn't good - have I lost myself somewhere? Then another friend gave me a book and I read the first few pages and thought "OMG" actually I though "Oh My God" because it would be strange to say OMG to yourself - but then I think saying OMG at anytime is strange......the book was ME - as in, the author wrote just like the voices in my head! Good voices, not the bad ones that tell you to go kill your neighbour or anything, the ones that bounce around like a ping pong ball from one idea to another and you really do have to WRITE THEM DOWN. I had lost that urge to write things down....but now I have found it again. So I am going to start writing......which is probably really, really bad timing. In fact, probably doesn't enter into it - I have a father in law with dementia whose apartment needs to be emptied out, a cat with lymphoma, a house full of relatives arriving and we are leaving for England/Iceland in 17 days!!!!

Luckily we are headed to the cottage this weekend. I went up to my husband and said "bring the laptop" sort of like the ad for WalMart with the lady who yells "start the care, start the car" His eyes lit up.....because he has seen this look before. When I write I don't clean, don't cook, drink copious amounts of coffee and everything and everyone had better stay out of my way. I once wrote an entire door stop sized novel in ten days!

So, for all of those who encourage me to write, you are getting your wish. I will try not to disappoint......because "you like me....you really like me."